Please visit the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education at www.doe.mass.edu/bsea
Scroll down to the June 15, 2009 SpedEx launch.
SpedEx is the innovative way for schools and parents to resolve disputes about special education placements–keeping the child’s need for a FAPE (free appropriate public education) front and central.
SpedEx is the new game in town. Check it out! For more information, please contact us at www.specialeducationday.com or at www.doe.mass.edu/bsea, or by contacting rconnolly@doe.mass.edu.
If other states are intereted in learning more aboutSpedEx, we’d love to hear from you.
Again–let’s keep our students’ need for a FAPE front and central when we resolve special education disputes.
About Miriam
Miriam Kurtzig Freedman, JD, MA—an expert in public education, focused on special education law— is a lawyer, author, speaker, consultant, and reformer.
For more than 35 years, Miriam worked with educators, parents, policy makers, and citizens to translate complex legalese into plain English and focus on good practices for children.
Now, she focuses her passion on reforming special education, with her new book, Special Education 2.0—Breaking Taboos to Build a NEW Education Law. Presentations include those at the AASA Conference, Orange County (CA), Boston College (MA), CADRE (OR), and the Fordham Institute (DC). Her writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Education Week, Education Next, Hoover Digest, The University of Chicago Law Review on line, DianeRavitch.net, and The Atlantic Monthly on line.
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